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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Installation/Update Instructions</h1>
<p>These instructions guide you through the RSE Extensions installation
and update process for RDi 7.5 and RDP 7.5 and higher.</p>

<p><strong>NOTE:</strong>  If you are using RDi 7.5 and have existing IBM i connections defined you must complete this installation routine, then manually define the subsystems to your connections.  You do this by accessing the RSE Extension Preferences from Window -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Remote Systems -&gt; IBM i -&gt; RSE Extensions.  There you will find Add buttons for both the Spooled Files subsystem and the Messages subsystem.</p>

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<h2>Installing the RSE Extensions</h2>

<h3>Download</h3>
<p>Download the installer.  The latest version is always available at <a
href="http://support.softlanding.com/opensource/rse_extensions_75.exe">
http://support.softlanding.com/opensource/rse_extensions_75.exe</a>.  Once you have
it downloaded, double click to launch the installer.</p>

<h3>Step 1:</h3>
<p>The installer is a standard Windows install wizard; the screens are self-explanatory.</p>
<img src="images/install/install-1-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<h3>Step 2:</h3>
<p>This screen shows the user agreement.  As the heading indicates, the RSE Extensions are
available under the terms of the IBM CPL v1.0, a fairly standard open source license
agreement -- the same agreement under which Eclipse was originally licensed.  (Eclipse now
has its own version, called the Eclipse Public License, or EPL.)</p>
<img src="images/install/install-2-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<h3>Step 3:</h3>
<p>Confirm the installation directory.  It doesn't matter what directory you install into,
as long as it is a new directory.  <strong>Do not</strong> install the RSE Extensions into one of the RDi/RDP
directories.</p>
<img src="images/install/install-3-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<h3>Step 4:</h3>
<p>This screen determines which products have been installed via the IBM Installation Manager. Select those versions which include the RSE which you want to extend.</p>
<img src="images/install/install-4-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<h3>Step 5:</h3>
<p>Another confirmation screen.</p>
<img src="images/install/install-5-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<h3>Step 6:</h3>
<p>The final screen, which appears after the install has completed.</p>
<img src="images/install/install-6-7.5.png" alt="Install screen" />

<p>Your IDE may then require a restart for the plug-ins to become available.</p>

<h3>Post-installation instructions for RDi 7.5</h3>
<p>RDi 7.5 will not add the new subsystems to existing connections.  You must do this manually</p>
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  <li> Start your IDE and go to: Windows -&gt; Preferences -&gt;</li>
  <li> Once there, select Remote Systems -&gt; IBM i -&gt; RSE Extensions </li>
  <li> Select the appropriate Add button for each subsystem </li>
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<h3>After the installer completes</h3>
<p>When the installer has finished, restart RDi/RDP.  Read the <a href="http://support.softlanding.com/opensource/site/overview.html">overview</a> and,
if you want to participate in the development of the RSE Extensions, the <a href="http://support.softlanding.com/opensource/site/develop.html">development instructions</a>.</p>

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<h2>Updating the RSE Extensions</h2>

<p>RDi/RDP has a feature in the preferences that you can set to automatically check for updates.  You can use this feature to update your RSE Extensions, as long as you are not behind a proxy server that does not allow this activity.
You can check for updates manually by choosing Software Updates
from the Help menu.  Follow the instructions provided by the wizard.</p>
<p>If you are behind a proxy server that will not allow the RDi/RDP updates feature to work, then you can install updates by downloading and installing the latest version, as described above.  When you do this, the installer detects
that the RSE Extensions are already installed, and skips most of the wizard screens.</p>

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